Woolley originally endowed his institute on dysfunctionality with four million pounds. (By British standards, that is a significant sum.) The institute opened in 2007 Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, turned up at its launch party and has published more than a dozen research papers challenging the benefits that financial markets and financial institutions bring to the economy.
Even big exchange-rate shifts can be absorbed if they occur slowly. (The 8% drop in the dollar since early 2002, for instance, has not caused any problems.) But if they happen quickly, financial markets are roiled, and at worst financial institutions are unable to cope with the strain.
These are two of the most important interest rates in the global financial markets and directly influence the value of trillions of dollars of financial deals between banks and other institutions.
In it she correctly anticipated that unregulated markets and huge financial institutions would, in the near future, have grave consequences for the rest of the world.
His simple indexing philosophy has led to better performance with less risk compared to the vast majority of investors who are trying to beat the markets, including financial advisors and large institutions such as endowments and pension funds.
Private equity and hedge funds operate within the financial markets alongside the large institutions that populate Wall Street and the City of London.
We weighed the multiple risks, such as the potential disruption to counterparties, other financial institutions, the markets and the market infrastructure.
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Without stability from financial institutions and financial markets, however, the Fed's ability to act as needed, instead of as markets anticipate, will remain severely diminished.
President NICOLAS SARKOZY (France): (Through Translator) When financial institutions have lost all credibility, markets are in chaos and panic reigns, people look to public institutions for a solution.
Bush has asked Congress to act quickly on the bailout proposal after news of failing financial institutions and frozen credit markets.
The Tabb Group, a leading capital markets research and analytics firm, recently surveyed financial institutions on their use of spreadsheets, said Tabb.
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An end to sanctions also would put strain Myanmar's weak financial institutions, including its underdeveloped capital markets and the central bank itself.
We need to harness the capital markets and create institutions that deliver both social and financial returns.
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Market-based mechanisms for social change are a welcome move toward dignity and self-sufficiency here at home and they bridge mainstream financial institutions with traditionally underserved markets in the United States.
With our recapitalizing of financial institutions, and massive government intervention in the markets, we've already crossed a significant bridge.
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For the past three decades, local governments engaged first in fee collection, then in land sales and now in borrowing from financial institutions or the capital markets.
Ultimately deeply undermines public trust in the capital markets and really threatened the collapse of almost all the big financial institutions.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and Low Income Housing and New Markets Tax Credits engage markets at scale.
Slumping markets and regulatory troubles are helping to expand the number of services that financial institutions are contemplating outsourcing.
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Briefly, these programs are intended to mitigate what have been, at times, very severe strains in short-term funding markets and, by providing an additional source of financing, to allow banks and other financial institutions to deleverage in a more orderly manner.
It was absolutely just as important to push through Wall Street reform to ensure that the kinds of things that led to the great recession, that led to the near collapse of our financial markets, could not happen again, and that taxpayers would not be on the hook when institutions failed.
They are increasingly entrenched in the operations of foreign governments and the international financial system, thereby weakening democratic institutions, degrading the rule of law, and undermining economic markets.
While some say the markets have changed, consumers still deserve clear communications from financial institutions that help them understand new offerings, new strategies and new opportunities.
If the Dresdner plan now goes ahead, Germany's retail financial markets will take a big stride towards Allfinanz: the provision of banking, insurance and asset management by single institutions.
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